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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Making mooncakes at iBakery 愛烘焙麵包工房 - 2013

I was kindly invited to help iBakery 愛烘焙麵包工房 to make their
large production of mooncakes for the forthcoming mid-autumn festival. What I
mean by “large” is over 600 pieces per day for 3 consecutive weeks. Yes, 3
weeks of mooncake-making! Hahha! I, myself, did not help for 3 weeks but only 6
days.

Here are a few
photos I'd like to share with you to show you the main steps in mooncake making.

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Balls of lotus paste

Salted duck egg yolks have been cleaned and infused in a special
wine

Each salted duck egg yolk is poked in the middle of a lotus
paste ball

Small balls of dough are pressed between 2 sheets of
plastic

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Each thin sheet of dough is placed onto the lotus balls

Sheets of dough are being carefully wrapped up around the
lotus balls

Each lotus paste ball – with salted duck egg yolk in – is covered

with a thin sheet of dough

Now, watch the video above to see how each ball is shaped
into a cake

(manually pressed into a wooden mold)

Unbaked mooncakes

Baked mooncakes

It was
really a fun and nice experience to learn to make mooncakes at iBakery. I like the atmosphere: serious yet pleasant and relaxingwith at times exchanges of jokes.

Thank you 愛烘焙麵包工房 for inviting me to work with you.By the way, I’m ready for next year!